Hulkster back on track, looking for one more match

Brian Fritz

It’s been a wild few years for Hulk Hogan. A divorce, his son Nick being arrested following a car accident, a sex tape showing up online and money issues. It was far from the man who professed that everyone should say their prayers and eat their vitamins.

Now things are turning around for the WWE Hall of Famer who is once again working for the company and much healthier following nine back surgeries and a new marriage.

“I bottomed out,” said Hogan who opened up in an interview last weekend following the roster reveal for the upcoming “WWE 2K15” video game. “I can’t blame anybody because I was accountable and made choices. Sometimes even when you figure it out and the spinning wheel stops, some of that residual karma keeps coming at you. Even when the pendulum swings back you get hit with some stuff. And I bottomed out.”

“Everything just happened at once. And I don’t want to blame anybody but I was in a relationship where I hate the world, I hate the sun, I hate the neighbors, the world is horrible. I was in that energy field and I didn’t know really how to get out of it. Then all of a sudden when the marriage ended and my son got into some trouble and my body shut down I bottomed out. And I was actually going down the wrong road and I was doing some crazy stuff that, thank God I’m still here, and I met Jennifer. She basically made me realize man, people are nice and it’s not what you’ve been taught or inherited from all these crazy situations. Peace, love joy. She kind of like put me on track. Whatever I did to cause this turbulence I forgive myself and people are nice. She made me understand how cool everything really is. I had to hit rock bottom to wake up and that’s where I’m at right now.”

Hogan stated that he signed a three-year deal to return to the WWE back on January 1st, bringing him back with the company where he became a household name. He has already made several appearances on television for the company and was also the host of WrestleMania 30 in New Orleans which included a special moment in the ring with “Stone Cold” Steve Austin and The Rock, arguably the three biggest stars in wrestling history.

Hogan admits that he hopes to do more with the company and be a part of weekly storylines but knows he has to be patient and know there is a vision from the boss Vince McMahon.

“I think they want to keep mystique and keep me more valuable than me standing there with the microphone and saying the same crap every week and it basically meaning nothing,” said Hogan. “I think they’ve got a plan and that’s what I’m praying for.”

One other thing is he hoping to do is get back in the ring. Despite now being 61 years old and still dealing with arthritis to go with his recovery from his back surgeries, he still has the itch and believes he can do it if given the chance.

“The thing is, I watch the old tapes of myself, WCW, and it’s embarrassing because towards the end I was getting to where it was embarrassing to kind of like be in there and then I watch the TNA (Wrestling) stuff and that was a nightmare. I tried to get in there. I was in the middle of the back surgeries trying to keep up. The doctors would say ‘you’ll be fine’ but to watch it now is embarrassing. Not that Vince would want this, not that Triple H would want this but I keep telling everybody that my goal, because I’m not in pain anymore, that my goal would be to get back in there, not embarrass myself if that’s possible and have that one more match. And if that works, if that really were to work I would love to contribute and participate and do some stuff because I miss it so much.”

“For me, it’s like dying seven deaths because everything went crazy between my personal life and all that craziness with my ex-wife and my son going to jail and all the back surgeries I had. It felt like it was taken away in a minute. And I didn’t realize how long a period of time for all that stuff to go down. I’d love to be part of it again.”

As for who he wants to get in the ring with, his target is on John Cena.

“I’m not trying to (get a match with Cena) but if I could have the best best case scenario with what’s going on with my body right now and the people that are helping me get back on track … My back’s fine, everything is cool, with my arthritis I’ve got some people helping me with that. (has it in his elbows and toes) hips and knees are metal so nothing wrong there If I can get more fluid and get rid of this arthritis, my goal would be in a perfect world to have Cena at WrestleMania 31. If that’s unrealistic I get it. But if I had a wish list and you’re asking me, that would I’d love to do. Have my body and be physically ready to have Vince and Triple H trust me enough to go ‘OK, you can handle this’ then get in there and just tear it down.”

In the meantime, fans can play as Hogan in the upcoming “WWE 2K15” video game which will be released on October 28 in the United States and October 31 internationally. In fact, there will be two versions of the Hulkster that you can use - the traditional red and yellow “Hulkamania” as well as the bad guy “Hollywood” Hogan from his days in the nWo while working with WCW,

You can get more information about “WWE 2K15” online at http://wwe.2k.com as well as on Twitter at @WWEGames.